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She said: "It was incredible. There were starfish as far as the eye could see, there were fish in there and sea urchins.

"I think someone found a lobster in there as well - and some false teeth.

"It was amazing. I live on the coast but I spend most of my time in London mudlarking in the Thames.

"I had heard about the starfish so I went down. There were quite a lot of people.

"I think they were first swept up yesterday and somebody told me they were there.

"I have never seen anything like that before."

Lara, who is currently working on a book documenting her mudlarking, said the starfish stretched from Ramsgate to neighbouring beaches in Broadstairs.

Many people were moved by the wildlife snaps (Image: Lara Maiklem / SWNS.com)

Seagulls and other birds were also among the dead wildlife.

Lara added: "The beast killed quite a lot of creatures. We save as many as we could but it was like the armageddon."

She shared the pictures on her London Mudlark Facebook page, which has more than 30,000 followers.

The post drew comments from people describing similar scenes elsewhere.

Some described beaches elsewhere in Britain covered with dead razor clams and other creatures.

Chris Keyworth said: "It's a natural phenomenon which happens all around our coast every year without the storms, normally you get one or the other dying off in stages - one day it's crabs, the next it's sea stars, the next jellyfish."

Other dead animals like seagulls and lobsters were found alongside the starfish (Image: Laura Maiklem / SWNS.com)